Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse -
That Odysseus took his time, 10 years, getting home to Ithaca from the Trojan War is the story Homer engraved in the “Odyssey.” But exactly when did he rejoin his Penelope, who had been patient beyond belief?
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Huge Meteor Strike Explains Mars’s Shape, Reports Say -
The lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, three teams of scientists are reporting. That would suggest that the lowlands of Mars’s northern hemisphere are a single gigant...
Alkaline Soil Sample From Mars Reveals Presence of Nutrients for Plants to Grow -
Stick an asparagus plant in a pot full of Martian soil, and the asparagus might grow happily, scientists announced Thursday.
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An experiment on the Phoenix Mars lander showed the dirt on the planet’s northern arctic plains to be...
R. C. Seamans Jr., NASA Figure, Dies at 89 - Obituary (Obit) -
Robert C. Seamans Jr., NASA’s nuts-and-bolts manager of the Apollo moon-landing program, who later served as secretary of the Air Force and then as the first administrator of the federal energy research agency, died Saturday at his home in Bev...
Ideas and Trends - Maybe Chicken Little Wasnt Paranoid After All -
THE Earth is pockmarked with the evidence of ancient collisions — huge craters blasted into its surface by asteroids or comets. One such object, striking 65 million years ago in the Yucatán in Mexico, is believed by some experts to be linke...
After 40 Years, Moon Rocks Still in Demand for Research -
HOUSTON — In the lab, the Moon rocks look nondescript — dark gray basalt, a whitish mineral called anorthosite and mixtures of the two with crystals thrown in. Yet nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts brought the first rocks back to...
Flyby of Mercury Answers Some Old Questions -
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Images of Mercury taken during the flyby, from left: the Caloris basin, a volcano and a new view of the planet.
Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears ...
